Web of Angels in a Literary Salon

“Web of Angels, goes further than any novel I think I’ve ever read in dramatising the strange brilliance of inner life…a novel that deals with the most commonplace of lives and manages to show the rich complexity that lies behind them…And I found it immensely moving…This is…what literature was designed for…”

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On a youngish woman riding the subway. She wore a winter coat, and blue leggings, and had a suitcase on wheels. Her shoes were so red and shiny, and the pointed toes–didn’t they squish hers? I wondered how she’d react if I asked to take a photo of her shoes, and then the train stopped, […]

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